Ratner on Legal Ethics and Complex Transnational Litigation

On February 8, 2013, Professor Morris Ratner participated in a panel conference at Stanford Law School entitled "Lessons from Chevron: Stanford Journal of Complex Litigation Symposium." The symposium focused on the ongoing litigation between Chevron and the people of Lago Argrio, Ecuador regarding alleged environmental harms, which have raised unprecedented transnational litigation issues. You can see the video here.

The European drafting process remains far from complete, and actual adoption of the resulting proposals will surely be a gradual thing. Throughout, however, these developments will have a significant UC Hastings component, and UC Hastings students will have the benefit of information about these significant international trends.

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